Bad week for Pitt

Over the weekend one of the top returning players for the Panthers smoked his way into the big house (not Michigan).

Defensive end Joe Clermond led the Big East with 16.5 tackles for lost and had 5.5 sacks last year. He also enjoys the Summer Jam at the Mellon Arena after begging for free cigars from the E-mart apparently.

Street Response Unit officers were patrolling Mellon Arena parking lots at 1:45 p.m. Saturday when they smelled marijuana smoke coming from one of the vehicles.
Clermond, 22, who was getting out of the silver sport utility vehicle when officers pulled up, denied smoking marijuana, but police spotted what appeared to be a half-smoked blunt, which is a cigar with the tobacco removed and replaced by marijuana.

Clermond was arraigned in Night Court where he got a $50 fine and time served from Harry as usual. Pitt has decided to take the Michael Vick/Falcons approach to this one: "At this juncture, we will decline comment and let the judicial process run its course."

One person Pitt probably won't take the same stance is John Duffy, a local sports announcer for Pittsburgh and press box announcer for Pitt football. Duffy got arrested last week for having a bunch of computer images and video files of sexin'. Between kids. Duffy had at least 18 files of child pornography on his computer. He was relesed on bond and should be heading to trial soon and hell shortly thereafter.